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Books podcasts were talking about in January 2025
During January 2025, various podcasts explored distinct literary works across political, historical, and recreational genres. On Timcast IRL, Phil recommended Margaret Weis's classic fantasy novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight for listeners interested in Dungeons and Dragons fiction. Meanwhile, The Ezra Klein Show featured multiple notable book discussions. James Pog and Ezra Klein appeared on the program to recommend several titles, including Patrick J. Deneen's Regime Change, which Pog suggested as an entry point for understanding elite replacement and the new right, and Matthew Rose's A World after Liberalism, which Klein recommended as an introduction to traditionalist and right-wing political thought. Pog also highlighted Stephen J. Pyne's detailed work Between Two Fires to address contemporary discussions surrounding American fire history. Also on The Ezra Klein Show, Darrin Lind recommended Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead as a realistic rebuttal to sentiments surrounding rural poverty, alongside Jonathan Blitzer's Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here for its historical perspective on immigration policy. Additionally, Matt noted his reading of George Eliot's Middle March, citing its long-standing reputation as a great English language novel. Finally, Huberman Lab welcomed Josh Waitzkin, who brought up Boyd Varty's Lion Tracker's Guide to Life to share a notable quote with the audience.
Big Technology Podcast
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Gambling Man
Discussed“Lionel Barber, who was the editor-in-chief of the FT when I was there, he just came out with a book. It's called Gambling Man, The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi-san. Is that where this, because I saw this quote everywhere and I was trying to find like the actual, where it was originally from.”
Interesting Times
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Fire and Fury
Discussed“exiled from Trump World after Michael Wolf's book fire and fury came out”
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Profiles in courage
Discussed“go read Jack Kennedy's profiles and courage you can add up the whole book and it doesn't come close”
Behind the Bastards
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Life Strategies
Critiqued“Now, this is a variation of one of Dr. Phil's life laws for people to follow, which he published in his plagiarized best-selling book, Life Strategies. Quote, no, we teach people how to treat us, own rather than complain about how people treat us.”
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The Business of Redemption
Discussed“and I talk about this in great depth and Detail in my book The Business of redemption because it I went from the Pinnacle to the pit”
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Age of Oprah
Discussed“and this is a point that's made very well in the book the age of Oprah By Janice peek quote inspired by a New York Times series from 2005”
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The Panic Virus
Discussed“science journalist Seth manukan who covered this meeting of the minds in his book The Panic virus reported that when free praised McCarthy's unwillingness to bow to Authority”
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Gods and soldiers
Discussed“and the author of an anthology of contemporary African fiction titled gods and soldiers”
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Say You're One of Them
Discussed“and he made a complaint about Oprah's elevation of a book called say you are one of them by Nigerian author uim akpan quote oon a Nigerian Jesuit priest is a modlin sappy writer”
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Beasts of No Nation
Discussed“they have nothing of the power of akpan countrymen uzodinma eaa's searing novel about a Child Soldier beasts of no Nation or sagales author bokar”
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Murambi, the Book of Bones
Discussed“beasts of no Nation or sagales author bokar Boris diop's novel about the Rwandan Genocide morami the book of Bones o Pan's writing is pedestrian and plotting”
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Discussed“170 years ago, Markx wrote this in the 18th premier of Louis Bonapart, his own response to a nation's nationalist attempt to restore its former glory by invoking the name of a previous leader. The social revolution of the 19th century cannot take its poetry from the past, but only from the future.”
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A Return to Love
Discussed“so she writes her own book about A Course in Miracles titled a return to love that's basically her taking like all right how do I make this a little bit more palatable”
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Epidemic
Discussed“uh a couple of researchers Joel best and Kathleen Boggle actually looked into where this rumor started and they traced it to a book called epidemic how teen sex is killing our kids by Meg Meer”
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Michelle Remembers
Discussed“this book Michelle remembers helped launch the satanic Panic a religious moral Panic that ruined hundreds of lives”
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Oprah
Discussed“I want to read a paragraph from the book Oprah a biography based on a conversation with her former colleague Patty Outlaw”
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What Happened to You?
Discussed“in 2021 one of my sources for this source is a a book that Oprah released about trauma much of which she discussed through the lens of her own childhood trauma she co-authored what happened to you with Dr Bruce Perry an American psychiatrist who specializes in child trauma”
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The General Strike and the General Betrayal
Recommended“When I finish my book, you should buy it. Yes. But read General Strike.”
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¡Presente!
Recommended“I've been reading a book called Presente, which is in English. Uh, but it's about how San Francisco dock workers blocked a shipment of weapons to El Salvador. Mhm. And it just seems a very relevant book.”
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When Paris Went Dark
Recommended“It's called When Paris Went Dark, and it is a history of the occupation of Paris under the Nazis. That is a really fascinating social history by Ronald Rosebottom that I found very like emotionally affecting, especially in light of, you know, some things going on.”
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See, I Told You So
Critiqued“In his book, See, I Told You So, he declared that quite a few scientists are now backtracking on their once dire predictions of melting ice caps and worldwide flooding.”
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Rush Limbaugh
Discussed“So my main source for the early life and family history of Rush Limbaugh is a fairly comprehensive, if I would say kind of fawning, biography of Limbaugh by Zeve Chapetsz.”
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The Dispossessed
Recommended“What are some of the most impactful books that you've read that you think listeners should read The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin If you also haven't read Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas which is a short story Read that”
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The Water Knife
Recommended“And you know why are there so many questions People here's here's one I haven't brought up in terms of books Read The Water Knife by Pooja Bhatia I'm I'm saying his name wrong I know But The Water Knife is just excellent Excellent book”
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Whipping Girl
Recommended“she recommended reading whipping Girl by Julia Serrano and oh my God it's incred it's an incredible book”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The 12th Planet
Discussed“this is in Zechariah cens the 12th Planet and so what he said is that the Sumerian Tablets talk about how their atmosphere was eroding”
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Project Mars a Technical Tale Dr. Wernher Von Braun
Discussed“Elon is the elected leader of the Martian government serving a five-year term Elon and their cabin administrator have enacted have laws enacted by two houses of Parliament Elon in Project Mars a technical tale is the name of the Martian leader”
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1900, or, The last president
Discussed“n 1889 novel called Baron Trump's marvelous underground Journey was written by ingel Saul Lockwood he would go on to write another book called the last president in 1900 mystery which involves a trump family Nicola Tesla time travel and dark Forces”
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The Monkey Wrench Gang
Discussed“it wouldn't surprise me man if you have you heard the book monkey wrench gang no eot terrorism”
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Discussed“uh on jenus Khan so first of all there's obviously the Dan Carlin Wrath of the K and in that series of podcast he criticizes the book Jack Weatherford Weatherford making of the modern world jenus Khan in the making the modern world the Mongols and the making the modern world”
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Walden
Discussed“you know the most men lead lives of quiet desperation the thorough line that I [ __ ] love so dearly It's such a great line”
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American Crusade
Discussed“and in his book if you read americ crusade in his book wait a second his book be honest I am”
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Journeys Out of the Body
Discussed“my boss tosses me a book called Journeys out of the body by B Andro”
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Death in the barren ground
Recommended“he gives you this book death in the baron ground it's about these guys in the 20s these three in the 20s that go up on this Theon river”
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Boomerang
Discussed“and I just read a book on California politics by Michael Lewis called Boomerang about sort of like how a lot of the towns like Stockton went broke because of the pension plans and all that [__] blah blah blah”
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Beyond Boredom and Anxiety
Recommended“there's a great book called beyond boredom anxiety by um shiken Miha I don't what the [__] his name is he's like this Hungarian scientist”
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Dallas Buyers Club
Discussed“I mean this is the movie American Buyers Club or Dallas Buyers Club rather that's fouchy in that movie that was with the AES crisis this exact same game plan that was played out with the covid vaccine”
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The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
Recommended“and I read this silly book by Alan Carr not the little guy who you know managed the Village People”
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The Gospel of Thomas
Discussed“he specifically highlights the fact that the Gospel of Thomas Gospel of Truth Gospel of the Hebrews Gospel of you know these ones that we kind of hear about Mary Judas that the reason we know that they're not associated with the names that are attached to them is because they're being written in times when those people were dead”
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The Gospel of Truth
Discussed“he specifically highlights the fact that the Gospel of Thomas Gospel of Truth Gospel of the Hebrews Gospel of you know these ones that we kind of hear about Mary Judas that the reason we know that they're not associated with the names that are attached to them is because they're being written in times when those people were dead”
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The Messianic Gospel of the Hebrews
Discussed“he specifically highlights the fact that the Gospel of Thomas Gospel of Truth Gospel of the Hebrews Gospel of you know these ones that we kind of hear about Mary Judas that the reason we know that they're not associated with the names that are attached to them is because they're being written in times when those people were dead”
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The Gospel of Barnabas
Discussed“in contrast the Gospel of Judas only has two names that would fit Jesus and Judas but contains a host of other characters whose names match not with first century Judea or Galilee like the biblical gospels but with names that were popular in Egypt during the 2 and 3rd centuries”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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The Political Thought of Mao Tsê-tung ; [selected and Translated By] Stuart R. Schram. Enlarged and Revised Ed
Discussed“This presentation is based on the first eight volumes of Stuart Schram's Collected Works of Mao. What Schram did is he compared Mao's complete works, as published in the 1950s, to whatever he could find as the earliest version of whatever it was.”
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Red Star Over China
Discussed“What Edgar Snow writes, Red Star Over China, you can probably go to Barnes and Noble and pick up a copy there. It's been in print ever since, and it's the original footnote in Chinese history because no one knew anything about Mao.”
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Code of the Samurai
Discussed“What they have is Bushido Code of the Samurai. It's a whole literature and it was written in the Tokagawa period which quite ironically was a period known for peace not warfare never mind.”
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Bushido, the Soul of Japan
Discussed“And I'm going to use as my cultural bridge this man Nito Inazo who wrote a book much later in 1900 Bushido's soul of Japan. Why am I doing this? He provides a concise definition of Bushido.”
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Little Stalin Library
Discussed“You recommended a book to me, Stalin's Library, which talks about the different books that Stalin read and the fact that he was kind of a smart, well-read guy.”
Stuff You Should Know
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A Dictionary of Saintly Women
Discussed“uh the book in 1904 called a dictionary of saintly women”
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Annals of Gullibility
Discussed“uh but this guy Steph Greenspan is an author he wrote a book he wrote the book on it um annals of gullibility called why we are duped and how to avoid it”
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Discussed“and there's a book that I I I think I've heard of but I never read from the mixed up files of Mrs Basil E frankweiler”
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Tartuffe and the Bourgeois Gentleman
Discussed“um and it wasn't until the 17th century specifically I think in 1670 when molier the French playwright came up with a musical comedy uh he was hilarious called um laoura gentle gentle or the bis gentleman”
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No Mud, No Lotus
Recommended“I'm reading this really amazing book by tikn Han right now I'm rereading it actually it's one of those ones you just kind of go back and reread very like easy slim volume it's called No mud no Lotus and it basically says like without suffering you can't have happiness and vice versa”
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Discussed“and that was a book called Confessions of a dangerous mind also made into a film of that same name which which makes this sort of an obvious pick for something for us to go over”
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You and Me Babe
Discussed“but in 74 he published you and me babe you and me babe a fictionalized account of his marriage”
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BAD GRASS NEVER DIES
Discussed“he did a followup to Confessions of a dangerous mind called um uh what was it called bad grass Never Dies I think that he released in 2004”
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Surya Siddhanta
Discussed“And not too long after that, or around that time in India, the world's oldest astronomy book, the Surya Siddhanta, obviously the whoever wrote it was like, I'm going to try to guess the diameter of Saturn, and I don't think they guessed at it like, you know, how many jelly beans are in this jar kind of guess, like”
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The three Christs of Ypsilanti
Discussed“For some reason, I thought I read the book, but I don't think I did.”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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The Science of Running
Discussed“I was very narrow my first book science of running no idea what I was doing just said I want to write like the Beall end all on the phys ology of training so it was like nerd out right”
Modern Wisdom
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Grey
Discussed“there's no way that you could go and buy 50 Shades of Gray and be 12 years old or something that has to be a an age limitation on box”
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500 Days of Summer
Discussed“I don't know if you ever saw the movie 500 Days of Summer no it's a fantastic movie that really incredibly illustrates”
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The Human Zoo
Discussed“I know I was very persuaded by a book uh by a guy called Desmond Morris called the human zoo in which he talked about the fact that essentially all the problems that we see in modern Human Society are exactly the problems you get if you put animals into those exact conditions”
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Not Nice
Recommended“first one is um not nice by aiz gaspari um that was really the I think that was the first book I ever read that really addressed this kind of people pleasing behavior”
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The Road Less Traveled
Recommended“it was one of the number one selling personal growth books of all time which is the The Road Less Traveled um really a direct punch in the face for making excuses”
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The Sirens of Titan
Recommended“um slaughterhouse 5 is probably the one that everybody says but Sirens of Titans is my favorite”
Timcast IRL
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Discussed“this all comes back to this guy named uh Paulo feri and he has a book called The pedagogy of uh the pedagogy of the oppressed and that was put into um it was written in like the early 80s and it made it or maybe the 7s but it made it made it went through the the schools of”
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Recommended“and if you haven't if you're in D and D and you haven't read the dragon L Dragon Lance no novels have start with Dragons of of Autumn Twilight that's the first one”
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Civilization 2
Recommended“just want to give a shout out to Sid Meers civilization 2 do you ever play that one it uh I recommend this for all of your kids to play even even as as game as old as civilization 2”
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End of Race Politics
Recommended“If you read I don't know if you're familiar with Coleman Hughes abely the end of race politics which I thought was a great book which sort of you know discussed that issue you know at at at you know in great depth”
Breaking Points
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Lab 257
Discussed“a lot of people actually have been suffering from Lyme disease through research of the tragedy and really of how decimated they are find themselves across books like lab 257 and others”
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Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
Discussed“and Peter Bard is going to join me to talk about his new book being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza”
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An Enemy of the People
Discussed“aost lator uh you know really cashed in on that with a book called the enemy of the people which was Echo a phrase that Trump shamefully used to describe the press”
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Google
Discussed“it is a really important topic and precedent that's often cited like Google Books isn't actually as supportive as it might seem”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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This Is Strategy
Discussed“so we have then this might be a good segue many maxims or ideas that we could discuss from the book and I circled a few for myself mostly for clarification”
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The Medium is the Massage
Recommended“suggest everybody get a few of his books they're incredible there are also I think two documentaries made about Andy goldsworthy that I'd recommend you check out”
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Homegrown
Recommended“homegrown a book by Jeffrey tubin about Tim McVey is I think a Canarian a Coline book”
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Summerhill
Discussed“by the way there's a very famous book called summerh Hill about a school in the UK I forget when maybe it's still around but it got famous long time ago”
The Ezra Klein Show
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The Unprotected Class
Discussed“I quoted Jeremy Carl who I know quite well who worked in the Trump Administration and who wrote a book about you know so anti-white racism”
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Powering the Armed Forces
Discussed“I quoted Jeremy Carl who I know quite well who worked in the Trump Administration and who wrote a book about you know so anti-white racism”
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Regime Change
Recommended“I would recommend Patrick Den's book regime change I like to think of it as like Curtis yarvin for normies but it explains this whole idea of Elite replacement”
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A World after Liberalism
Recommended“I do really recommend there's a great book by a guy named Matthew Rose called a world after liberalism which if you would like to be introduced to more ideas like this I I think people should pick up”
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Between Two Fires
Recommended“and then I guess my last book would be a little disconnected but I do live in Los Angeles and I've been very very disillusioned by some of the ranor and lies and idiocy around the fire policy stuff and there's a great fat really boring way too detailed but really revealing book called between two fires that is like”
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Demon Copperhead
Recommended“demon Copperhead was the only novel I read twice last year and I think that it is the rebuttal to all of the you know pseudo sentimental like Hil hbil elogy debate in terms of what really happened to the rural poor over the last 25 years”
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Recommended“uh and if I don't say an immigration book I'm probably going to be fired so everyone who has gone is here by Jonathan Blitzer specifically the first half um which talks about the 80s and has really great archival material uh as a reminder that like Government is made of people and people make decisions”
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The Christmas canticles, by George Elliott
Recommended“so I'm reading old long novels uh Middle March is by many people's estimate uh the greatest English language novel ever written”
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The Sirens' Call
Recommended“but he just wrote a great book called the sirens call how attention became the world's most endangered resource I've read most of the books on attention out there this one is I think the best one at understanding the value of attention today”
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How to Do Nothing
Recommended“great um another book that has been mentioned on your podcast a lot and relevant which is again I I feel like I'm sort of citing can Tex here and it's important for me to do because I want to be clear as we all are as authors you know lots of people have been thinking about this very well”
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Rejection
Recommended“and then my final is a work of fiction of short stories by an author named Tony Tula Tudi called rejection”
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The Origins of Elected Strongmen
Discussed“Erica France is a political scientist at Michigan State University and a co-author of the origins of elected strongmen how personal parties destroy democracy from within”
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Dictators at War and Peace
Recommended“so first I would recommend Jessica weeks who has a book called dictators at war in peace and this is our go-to book for explaining why personalistic dictatorship is bad for foreign policy”
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The Trumpiad
Recommended“And then lastly for some lovy I would recommend Cody Walker's poetry book called The trumped from I think 2016 or 2017”
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Autocracy Rising
Recommended“I also would recommend Javier cordales who has a book called autocracy rising and this is this really detailed exploration of how Venezuela's democracy fell apart”
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The Uncontrollability of the World
Recommended“he has um a small book called The uncontrollability of the world that he's also written a very big one”
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Fully Alive
Recommended“I'd also recommend a book by uh friend of mine Elizabeth field called fully alive I think the subtitle is tending to the soul in turbulent times”
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Death
Recommended“and then uh there's a book by a spiritual teacher called Joan toson which has the remarkable title death the end of self-improvement which um that's strong”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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How Countries Go Broke
Discussed“this week Ry is releasing a new book called how countries go broke in which he analyzes and shares his studies on this particular topic and I'm really excited for Ry to join me here uh today”
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The Gangs of New York
Discussed“in fact Dave you and I were talking about at some point Gangs of New York and the fire departments being oh yeah totally great crazy timing that we were talking about that two or three weeks before this happened”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Three Great Nancy Drew Mysteries
Discussed“Nancy Drew Mysteries like every like anything I could get my hands on The Hardy Boys like I'm reading that”
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The Hardy Boys' Guide to Life
Discussed“like anything I could get my hands on The Hardy Boys like I'm reading that and yeah so so many different stories”
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The Care and Feeding of Children
Discussed“baby cages came into Vogue after they were invented in 1922 but their Origins really began with the 1884 book The care of feeding of children um by EMT Hol”
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Oppenheimer
Discussed“boom boom scene in the Oppenheimer when they're deciding where to do it if that's how it went down”
Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Organic Manifesto
Discussed“my very first podcast I want to say 12 13 years ago was with Maria rodale about her book The Organic Manifesto which was espousing like getting back to Nature eating real food”
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The Right
Recommended“Matthew conetti wrote a book recently the right phenomenal”
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At War with Ourselves
Recommended“the book by the way is fantastic and do a thing that I never do I never read reviews of books until I'm done reading them”
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Prey
Discussed“as I mentioned before your book prey was one of the first places other than Douglas Murray's book strange death of Europe where I came across some of these anecdotes and I just want to share them um with listeners”
EconTalk
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Superagency
Discussed“our topic for today is re's new book with Greg biato a super agency what could possibly go right with our AI future”
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La Boheme
Discussed“I was in my 20s and I would listen to F by guno labm by Pini Madam Butterfly by Pini”
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Madam Butterfly
Recommended“when I was about um 25 years old my dad in desperation disappointed that I had never really caught the bug uh sent me a cassette of Madam butterfly with leontin price and he said look just listen to it for 20 minutes ... put on Madam butterfly”
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The Magic Flute
Recommended“watch bergman's movie The Magic Flute try to see Don listen to Dan Giovani by Mozart”
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Don Giovanni
Recommended“watch bergman's movie The Magic Flute try to see Don listen to Dan Giovani by Mozart”
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On Settler Colonialism
Discussed“what I like about Adam's book is it it's it's very calm I'll just say he does not uh he appears to have done a great deal of reading uh he doesn't do any yelling there's no yelling in the book which I really appreciate”
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Question 7
Recommended“I want to put a plug in for a book uh that's only tangentially related but I just read question seven by Richard Flanigan which is a memoir it's an extraordinary book”
Huberman Lab
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
Discussed“his early life achievements were the topic and focus of the book and movie Searching for Bobby fiser”
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Lion Tracker's Guide to Life
Recommended“he in his his book lion tracker's Guide to Life he has this gorgeous quote”
Acquired
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Competitive Strategy
Discussed“Michael Porter was at one time also considered a big figure in this competitive I mean he wrote three or four books you know big books you know 700 page each”
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Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors
Discussed“he goes home back to the hotel from work and he studies the best textbook that he can find about electrical engineering which is entitled electrons and holes in semiconductors with applications to transistor Electronics written just recently a couple years before in 1950 by William Shockley”
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Electrons and holes in semiconductors, with applications to transistor electronics
Discussed“he goes home back to the hotel from work and he studies the best textbook that he can find about electrical engineering which is entitled electrons and holes in semiconductors with applications to transistor Electronics written just recently a couple years before in 1950 by William Shockley”
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Who is Michael Ovitz?
Recommended“mine is a book that has been recommended to me for two or three years now and I finally got around to reading and it was awesome it's called who is Michael Ovitz”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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More Candid Chronicles
Discussed“he comes out with a book called more candid Chronicles and he says if I heard once I heard a score of times the ominous words somebody will get Ambi someday”
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The Missing Millionaire
Recommended“there's a book that I'm hoping to read by Katie dos who wrote for the Toronto Star it will hopefully have more about the cryptogram but we're we're honestly going to have to dig into that one that book's called The Missing millionaire the true story of Ambrose small”
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The Death of the Gods
Discussed“and that book that you mentioned at the top of the episode the death of the Gods the new Global power grab that is one of the primary sources”
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From hell
Discussed“remembering I would as well and I need to because it's an incredible work it's incredibly Grizzly the film is okay”
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THE PHASE
Discussed“he's written a lot of books you can find them many of them are just translations of the same book The primary book you can find is titled the phase p h a e it is a guide book for lucid dreaming and outof body travel”
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Go Ask Alice
Discussed“do you guys remember the book Go Ask Alice”
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Food of the Gods
Discussed“you may have read books like food of the Gods the search for the original tree of knowledge”
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12 Angry Men
Recommended“then also you know a good example of this of course the seminal work 12 Angry Men do also check out an amazing film Devil's Advocate”
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The Devil's Advocate
Recommended“do also check out an amazing film Devil's Advocate there's a jury selection seen in there the the new Clintwood movie juror number two is actually quite good”
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Kochland
Discussed“this comes from an excellent book called kand by an author named Christopher Leonard in which he traces the twist and turns of this nefarious tale”
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The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
Discussed“remember the uh island of Dr Maro did you guys ever read that”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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The Gift
Discussed“no that reminds me of uh Edith eiger's book the gift and the work of Victor Franco”
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The DOSE Effect
Recommended“and I'm glad that people are going to read the dose effect dive into more on dopamine oxytocin serotonin and endorphins”
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The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of ...
Recommended“Mel I want to thank you so deeply for writing this book The let them Theory a life-changing tool that millions of people can't stop talking about”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The Ancient City
Discussed“You've mentioned in the past the book The Ancient City.”
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The Power of the Powerless
Recommended“the other good book on this topic, which is The Power of the Powerless, you know, who is an anti-communist resistance fighter”
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A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
Discussed“So first, the book we're talking about is the 'A Monetary History of the United States,' in part for which Milton Friedman won the Nobel Prize.”
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Milton Friedman
Recommended“She wrote two biographies, one on Milton Friedman and the other on Ayn Rand, both of which I highly recommend.”
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Gulag
Discussed“For example, Anne Applebaum's book, Gulag, is very different from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago.”
The Book Review
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The Note
Discussed“but in the note the new novel by author alfair Burke it's summertime set in the Hamptons”
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The What the Dead Know CD
Recommended“I think Mystic River by Dennis leaine and what The Dead Know by Laura Litman”
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The Hermits of Big Sur
Discussed“and and I found a a forward that you had written to a book about the Hermits of Big Sir the book is called the Hermits of big sir”
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The sign of Jonas
Discussed“at the beginning of the book I describe Thomas Merton walking around his darken Monastery on firewatch on July the 3D I think it was 1951 at the end of his book The End Of sign of Jonas”
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True Grit
Discussed“so a lot of what I read is coming out this year so I'm not going to necessarily mention it but I did read True Grit by Charles pis”
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Norwood
Discussed“I'd only read Norwood and I loved it”
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The Luminaries
Discussed“and I started The Luminaries by Eleanor katton who won the booker prize for it”
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Onyx Storm
Discussed“this is a book called onx storm”
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Hope
Discussed“it's called hope the autobiography Hope by a pope”
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Stone Yard Devotional
Recommended“this is stoneyard devotional by Charlotte Wood”
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The Dream Hotel
Recommended“it's a book called The Dream hotel by Leila Lami”
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The Colony
Recommended“so this is the colony by anak Norland”
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Death of the Author
Recommended“this comes out January 14th and it's called death of the author by NTI okoror”
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Jesus Wept
Recommended“I'm also equally curious however in reading a book that comes out later later this winter which is called Jesus wept seven popes and the battle for the soul of the Catholic church”
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The Antidote
Recommended“I'm going to talk about the antidote by Karen Russell which is a novel coming out in March”
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The Crash
Recommended“I have the crash by Freda mcfaden”
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Kills Well with Others
Recommended“Deanna Rayborn has a new book coming out kills well with others at the beginning of March”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Finding the Winning Edge
Discussed“I started talking to him about how Bill Walsh wrote this book um you know the at the height of his you know just being like theill bich Vince Lombardi guy of his era he was approached to write a book on football and he wrote like like he basically showed the outline and he had diagram plays and it”
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Modern Drummer Legends: Alex Van Halen
Discussed“well I'm finishing up Alex Van Halen's amazing book”
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White Malice
Recommended“the legal way I present white malice by Dr Susan Williams”
Freakonomics Radio
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A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
Discussed“he cited a book by the Oxford computer scientist Michael waldridge called a brief history of artificial intelligence”
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The Imposter as Social Theory
Discussed“So here's something that Stapel wrote later when he wrote a book of confession, essentially about his fraud: 'I was doing fine, but then I became impatient, over-ambitious, reckless.'”
Pod Save America
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Government Gangsters
Recommended“he read cash Patel's book the New FBI director you should check it out it's not a long book seen”
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The Wide Wide Sea
Discussed“I'm reading uh the wide wide Sea by Hampton sides”
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Boy Mom
Discussed“now I like doing that reading boy mom which is about raising young men and uh solid and uh you know modern masculinity”
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An Artist of the Floating World
Recommended“I read a book over the break called an artist of the floating World by Kazo isuru”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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All the President's Men
Recommended“one is there's an incredible picture in uh Donald Trump's book which is a picture of Zuck sitting in the oval and by the way this is the same book which you have to get”
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Charlie Wilson's War
Discussed“and then maybe one day they'll write a book about you like Charlie Wilson's War about how courageous you were and shipping a bunch of weapons all around the world and starting Wars that we're still dealing with the ramifications of”
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Fathers and Sons (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Discussed“we're just like animals in the famous Russian novel Fathers and Sons by turev”
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the second sex
Discussed“It all goes back to Simone debir who's a Marxist writing in the postwar period I guess it was what was like the 40s her book came out the second sex”
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Nationalism
Recommended“she wrote A Trilogy on nationalism named Leah greenfeld recommend her books her first book is called nationalism”
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The Spirit of Capitalism
Recommended“she wrote A Trilogy on nationalism named Leah greenfeld recommend her books her first book is called nationalism second book is called Spirit of capitalism”
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Mind, Modernity, Madness
Recommended“she wrote A Trilogy on nationalism named Leah greenfeld recommend her books her first book is called nationalism second book is called Spirit of capitalism and then the third book is called Mind Madness and modernity”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
Discussed“I used to as a kid love Isaac azimov science fiction books and one of the reasons I did enjoy reading them so much is it was a world in which there was an exploration of what does the creation of robots which is what we're living through mean for Morality”
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Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind
Discussed“You used the word there You used the word explore um as it relates to different diets that you've written about in your book and that, you know, that that are available online.”
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Roar
Discussed“And in your book raw and page four in the opening of the book, you talk about how women are 52% as strong as men in their upper bodies and 66% as strong as they are in their lower bodies.”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Leaving the Saints
Discussed“and then 10 years later I waited 10 years and then I wrote a book about it called leaving the Saints how I left the Mormons and found my faith because it was about how I had been set free by the experience of dealing with that”
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Expecting Adam
Discussed“where you were when you were 25 years old yeah and we expecting Adam which is also the title of the first book of yours that I ever read”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It Ends With Us
Discussed“what do you make of the big controversy over it ends with us Have you been following that on your show only”
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Mad House
Discussed“it's from an upcoming book called mad house uh Senator Chuck Schumer of New York sat in the foyer of President Biden's rith Beach House”
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Holy Bible (NIV)
Discussed“And it's all in that book; everything we're seeing happening right now isn't that how you started just reading the Bible?”
Conversations with Tyler
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Rumba rules
Discussed“And there's a there's a book by an American guy who went to Kinshasa to figure it out. And he writes a whole book uh Rumba Rules it's called uh by Bob White, I think it is Robert White.”
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And the Roots of Rhythm Remain
Recommended“Before my last question, I just like to plug your book again. The title is And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, a journey through global music. Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin blurbed it as profound and beyond.”
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Solenoid
Discussed“How did you like Solenoid by the way? I know you were reading it. Did you finish it? I loved it. I thought this is one of the the best novels of the last 10 years.”
The Ramsey Show
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The Beginner's Guide
Recommended“I personally use them every year I go to the site and I download the tax prep check checklist I read over The Beginner's Guide to taxes as a little refresher”
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The Power Pause
Recommended“pick up uh my buddy Nia Ruck um Ru she has a new book out called the power paw which is about this exact moment for when you're staying at home and you're crafting a career after that I haven't read it yet it's been sitting my desk but the reviews are astounding um it's called the power paw pick”
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In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms
Recommended“Amanda read in Praise of stay-at-home moms from Dr Laura that one was very very comforting very you shout out Dr Laura the OG the OG the OG”
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The Let Them Theory
Discussed“the two words coming to my mind are the title of uh Mel Robbins new book and it's and my thought is let them just let them”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Carl Panzram Papers
Discussed“the psychiatrist asked him to write his autobiography it's called panzram”
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You Can Do It!
Discussed“well we talked about Rob's book which is a testament to the power of free speech”
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When I heard the learn'd astronomer
Discussed“are you familiar with the poem by Walt Whitman yes it's called when I heard the Learned astronomer”
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Operations of the geometric and military compass, 1606
Discussed“so this this was a book he wrote It's called the military Compass”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Microeconomics for Managers, 2nd Edition
Discussed“I read David ks's microeconomics book my first year at Oxford and it just captured my imagination and so that really carried me through”
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Not Quite what I was Planning: Six-word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Discussed“my freaking a author Steven dub he started to get obsessed with these Six Word Stories and he was invited to be part of a book where they asked famous authors to write their own Memoir in six words”
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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. by
Discussed“Through the Looking Glass the sequel is based on chess and he actually said you could play that book as a genuine game of chess”
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Creative Acts for Curious People
Discussed“and it's the exact same attitude that pervades the D school's web page and your book creative acts for Curious people”
The Peterman Pod
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The Making of a Manager
Discussed“I read the making of a manager when I became when I became the tech lead of graphic violence. I read that book thinking like I really got to learn how to kind of lead right and it was a great book”
StarTalk Radio
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Galileo's Daughter
Discussed“and another one Galileo's daughter M yes”
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Women in Their Element
Discussed“but then I was asked to review a book called women in their element and it was all about women chemists”
SmartLess
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Friday Night Lights
Discussed“uh without that it was you know I had uh I had followed the the book and read the book and Buzz used to um you know push me to try and make it at the time I actually didn't really have the juice there a lot of filmmakers that wanted it and Brian graser controlled it and I would”
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13 Reasons Why
Discussed“she found the book 13 Reasons Why which we turned into a TV show so she randomly was at a book store and she was an young adult and found that and we developed it”
ChooseFI
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Keys to a Successful Retirement
Discussed“and not the financial side but Fritz Gilbert his book he sent it actually because I think Eric and Jason had him on their podcast and then he sent me his book keys to a successful retirement and that covers sort of like once you retire”
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The Purpose Code
Recommended“and he is coming out with a new book actually tomorrow so from the day this launches it's coming out tomorrow January 7th 2025 called the purpose code how to unlock meaning maximize happiness and leave a lasting Legacy”
The Daily Stoic
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Mythology
Discussed“Edith Hamilton's book was one yeah that was one of the first books that that I had read and her mythology companion I can I can I read that those the Mythology stories way sooner than I probably should have”
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The Greek Way
Discussed“you know uh that book The Greek way uh Robert F Kennedy when he's running for president his uh wife I think somebody gives him a copy of that book and it just sort of opens his uh it blows his mind”
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Zeus the Mighty
Recommended“and they had a new book series coming out called Zeus the m which is a really adorable book series written by chrisen Boer fantastic book series”
How I Write
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Discussed“free at last free at last thank God almighty we're free at last alone alone or all alone alone on a wide wide sea and rhyme the Ancient Mariner”
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Storyworthy
Recommended“the story Worthy is amazing book by this like teacher guy who's like the 20time storytelling champion of the moth storytelling”
My First Million
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Money for Couples
Discussed“And you have this book uh Money for Couples, and you tweet all about this the stuff with your relationships”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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The Warrior Elite
Discussed“did you know any of the evolutions that I mean before you went in yeah because as we started to go through our Indo and PR you know preparing for first phase guys are talking so what were you worried about you read the warrior Elite too yeah yeah Des book”
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Limitless Mind
Discussed“I was teaching at Fort wuka Arizona and a friend of mine Rob coward and I found put off's book mind reach where they published all of their remote viewing study”
